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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · Joaquin Buckley vs Nursulton Ruziboev
From the tape · 11 May 2024

Joaquin Buckley vs Nursulton Ruziboev

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Result

Joaquin Buckley beat Nursulton Ruziboev

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Keith Peterson

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner JoaquinBuckley“New Mansa”Murcielago MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NursultonRuziboev“Black”Tashkent
Welterweight3 rounds11 May 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Buckley.
21-8
Record
37-9-2
30
Age
30
5' 10"
Height
+7″6' 5"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1012
UFC bouts
2
6/875% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Tashkent
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Joaquin Buckley8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 18BODY25%2 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
Nursulton Ruziboev7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 15BODY43%3 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
7 of 22
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:16
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buckley firstSal D'Amato9–10Henry Gueary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joaquin Buckley14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 21BODY36%5 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
Nursulton Ruziboev8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 13BODY62%5 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buckley firstSal D'Amato10–9Henry Gueary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD BuckleyEnded 5:00
Joaquin Buckley64 sig landed
HEAD89%57 of 98BODY11%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Nursulton Ruziboev16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 18BODY31%5 of 10LEGS6%1 of 1
64 of 106
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:32
Control
0:34
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 60
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Buckley firstSal D'Amato10–8Henry Gueary10–9Chris Lee10–8

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Joaquin BuckleyNursulton Ruziboev
Official totals — Joaquin Buckley first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27
Henry Gueary30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–26

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 17 scored, Joaquin Buckley first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw30–26
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–26
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–26
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Matthew Woolfall Sports Illustrated30–27
Alex Behunin MMA Mania30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Tim Wheaton CombatPress.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press30–27
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–27
MM AUncensored.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Buckley · 45%29-27 Buckley · 16%30-27 Buckley · 13%29-28 Buckley · 10%

106 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Joaquin Buckley

1.43takedowns / 15 min
1.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
3.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.14 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
66%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nursulton Ruziboev

0.75takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Joaquin Buckley↓ −2.7pp
open 57.2%close 54.5%
Nursulton Ruziboev↑ +2.7pp
open 42.8%close 45.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joaquin Buckley opened at 57.2% and closed at 54.5% (−2.7pp), with Nursulton Ruziboev moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Joaquin Buckley-148-13357.2%54.5%−2.7pp
Nursulton Ruziboev12411042.8%45.5%+2.7pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · dated 2024-05-12 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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